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It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
Critic
Humorist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Writer
Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
Animals
Evolution
Guess
Modern
Animal
Brain
Science
Men
Risen

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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
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If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up, he will roll over to prove that he is dead... While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.
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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.
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[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.
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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.
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Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.
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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.
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